"My students learn in my class that they matter. Ultimately students leave my classroom not only with confidence in the skills taught, but with knowledge of their role in the history they are creating today in the school, community and world. "Whether students are acting out the Constitutional Convention realizing why compromise was desperately needed," Taylor wrote in "teaching philosophy" document, "analyzing arguments in the Lincoln-Douglas debates while I am wearing a top hat and beard, or reading about the Civil War battles through soldier's journals, students are growing and learning how complex and exciting history can be. Not only are they engaging-for instance, students simulate the Constitutional Convention-but they are formulated to challenge her classes to analyze historical facts and ideas. Her lessons investigate historical events. I was always interested in: why did things happen the way they did?" "It was always my favorite subject in school. "That's when I knew this is the place I belong," said Taylor, who combined her passion for middle schooler with her interest in U.S. She came to Murfreesboro to study elementary education at Middle Tennessee State University and never left Rutherford County once she started student-teaching at Rockvale. These achievement rates are calculated by taking the total number of subject-specific tests on which students scored on track or mastered and dividing them by the total number of assessments. Taylor, whose mother is a seventh-grade science teacher in nearby Wilson County, grew up in Mt. The following information shows us how students performed on ELA, mathematics, Social Studies, and Science assessments. They began honoring history teachers in 2004. Gilder Lehrman - founded in 1994 - is the nation's leading organization dedicated to K-12 American history education. In the coming weeks, 10 finalists will be announced and then a winner of the national competition will be announced in early fall. She is now one of 53 finalists for the $10,000 National History Teacher of the Year Award.
Taylor said the realization of her selection has not sunk in yet. These are among a few of the qualities to consider when choosing a school to send your child to."I was putting all my desks where they belong," said Taylor, who was nominated for the distinction by last year's state winner Dustin Brannon, now an assistant principal at Rocky Fork Middle School. Such factors include class sizes and student-teacher ratios, the quality of teachers and amount of personal attention given to each student, school programs and extracurricular activities provided, amount of funding a school receives and how much is spent per student and other available resources. Ratings do not take into account other important factors you should consider when evaluating a school. Keep in mind ratings are solely based on a school's performance on its state's standardized tests. Some public schools may not have ratings because either the school did not report its results, the results were incomplete or there was not enough data available to calculate an accurate rating. Private schools do not have ratings because private schools are not obligated to report their test scores to the public.
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